NEW: Russia has spent more than $300M in a global campaign to influence foreign political events, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence review
The countries where election interference was attempted include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania and the east African island nation of Madagascar, according to a source familiar with the review who was not authorized to speak publicly.
“Part of our charge, not only is to do that assessment and to collect and to do that analysis, but then to expose what we know,” he added. The U.S. intelligence community will also be briefing select countries on Russia’s targeting of their specific political environments, according to the official, including how best to counter that challenge.federal grand jury indictment
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